Bierhoff made his debut for the German national team in a friendly against Portugal on 21 February Altogether Bierhoff scored 37 goals in 70 caps , including both goals in the 2—1 win over the Czech Republic in the Euro final after having come on as a substitute.

Within seven minutes the former provided the latter with three assists, meaning Bierhoff had scored the fastest hat-trick in the history of the German national team.

He made his last appearance for his country when he was brought on during the second half of the FIFA World Cup Final against Brazil , but was unable to help the Germans score in the 0—2 loss.

A large and prolific striker, Bierhoff was a strong, physical, and powerful player, who played mainly as a target man in the centre-forward role.

Essentially the duties revolve around the public relations aspect of the team as opposed to the coaching responsibilities. Bierhoff took a correspondence course and graduated in with a degree in Business Economics from the University of Hagen.

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The team showed signs of being over the hill, having had several aging players while it won the league in — ChievoVerona played its second consecutive season in Serie A, and nearly equaled 5th place from the Serie A season.

Due to passport troubles, it also lost key winger Eriberto, who turned out to be four years older and called Luciano, but had faked his identity since he was 21, in order to participate in a Brazilian youth team.

Despite the squad being thinned out, several key players, including Nicola Legrottaglie, Eugenio Corini and Simone Perrotta remained at the club, and those three proved to be the most important players for Chievo, since the absence of the previous starts hardly mattered in terms of results.

Its European debut ended in a flop, though, as it lost to unfancied Serbian side Crvena Zvedza in the primary round. In association football, a manager is an occupation of head coach in the United Kingdom responsible for running a football club or a national team.

Outside the British Isles and across most of Europe, a title of head coach or coach is predominant. The match featured tournament favourites Germany, who knocked out hosts England in the previous round, and Czech Republic, playing in only their first European Championship since the break-up of Czechoslovakia.

It began on 9 June and was completed on 19 June. This record was surpassed by the May rankings for Euro Group B, with Germany 2 , the Netherlands 4 , Portugal 5 and Denmark 10 , but not the June rankings immediately before the tournament 3, 4, 10 and 9 respectively.

Germany won the group and advanced to the quarter-finals, along with the Czech Republic. Italy and Russia failed to advance.

Goals scored during penalty shoot-outs are not counted, and matches decided by a penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.

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